Hi,

Actually I want to take a back of root partition, which is under SuSE linux.

I used following commad

tar cvzf <backup_dir>/tar_root.tgz / --exclude /mnt --exclude /proc --exclude <backup_dir> --exclude /tmp

I got following error at the end.

"tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors". Is this successfull tar or there is some issue with it.

Could anybody please help me on this.

Thanks in advance.

jekd

Nope, that wasn't sucessful.

Did you actually enter that exact command? If so, then I'm not surprised it failed. tar cvzf ..... isn't correct, it should be tar -czvf .....

Presumably, you didn't actually type <backup_dir>, you did put in a real directory name here?

If you just made a typo while posting here, then run the command again without the v option (tar -czf). This will stop tar from displaying the name of every file it processes, so you should be able to see any earlier error messages.

Apologies if I'm stating the obvious a bit with these, but I've found that very often it's the simplest mistakes that are the hardest to spot.

travelluk,

Thanks for your response. I was not using - (hyphen) like "tar -cvzf". But I have specified a specific directory for backup dir.

I tried with two ways

"tar -cvzf" as well as "tar -czf", In both cases it is giving same error.

Thanks
jekd

OK, without the v, what's the full output you get? This should contain some kind of error message in addition to the one you've already stated.

Could it be some kind of permissions problem? You will almost certainly need to be root to run that command.

I am running as root only and a bunch of lines (ignored..File shrank by 2560 bytes; padding with zeros..etc) appearing before this error.

I've got to say I don't really know what could be causing that. You could try running without the z option, so that the output file isn't compressed. This will tell you whether it's tar or gzip that's causing the problem.